Hasp-fastener.



No.831,122. PAIENTBDSEPT.18,19Q6} F.VS E.TEGKA.

HASP FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED 00121.1904.

y Al/omey UNITED STATES w OFFICE.

HASP-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed October 21,1904- Serial No. 229,396.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK VSETEOKA, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Protivin, in the county of Howard and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hasp-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and novel improvement in hasp-fasteners adapted to be used in connection with house and barn doors, though the same is more specially adapted to be used in connection with barn-doors.

The aim of my invention is to provide a simple hasp-fastener so arranged that the same may be opened from within as well as without.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown in Figure 1 an elevation disclosing a broken portion of a barn-door and a broken portion of a door-jamb provided with my improved hasp-fastener, while Fig. 2 shows a view, partly in section, of a door provided with my hasp-fastener.

In connection with barn-doors, it is often desirable for the operator to secure the door after entering the barn or stable, and in my invention I provide a device, noticeable because of its extreme simplicity, which is arranged so that the operator may actuate the same from within or without the barn.

In carrying out the aim of my invention I use an ordinary hasp A, which is perforated, as is shown at v, to receive one member of the U-shaped staple 9, by means of which the hasp is pivotally secured to the barn-door 0c. The hasp A is held adjacent the dooracin alinement therewith. This hasp is provided in its free end with a slot 1), through which the retaining-staple 10 extends, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Extending through the hasp A, as well as the barn-door 0c, is a bolt 5, forming a shaft, which has secured to it a thumb-nut Sand a lock-nut 6, the washer 7 being interposed between the thumb-nut 8 and the door :0.

In connection with my hasp I use a T- shaped locking-hook B, having the head a, from which extend the points 1 1. At a suitable point this head B has a portion stamped outward to form the thumb-piece 2, as is disclosed in Figs. 1 and 2, and at the end opposite the head is provided with the lap-ears 3, the lockinghook being perforated at the ear end to receive the shaft-forming bolt 5, as shown.

Now in constructing my hasp-fastener I use an ordinary bolt 5, the head of which I secure within the lap-ears 3, as is shown in Fig. 1, and then carry the stem of the bolt 5 through the hasp A, the barn-door 0c, and secure the washer 7, the thumb-nut 8, and the lock-nut 6, as shown. At a suitable point within the door-j anib z I next secure the retaining-staple 10,the instrumentalities being so arranged that when the hasp engages this staple 10 one of the points 1 of the locking-hook B will drop into the staple, as shown.

N ow from without in order to open the barn-door the operator would grasp the thumb-piece 2, raise the locking-hook, and so remove it from engagement with the staple 10, which would permit the door freely swinging out, the hasp being held by the bolt 5 and staple 9 in a horizontal position. From within, were the door closed, the operator would simply turn the thumb-nut 8 to raise the locking-hook B upward and in that manner open the door.

If it were desirable to secure the hasp upon a door hinged upon the opposite edge, the hasp-fastener would be secured in a position so that the point 1 would come in engagement with the retaining-staple 10, so that this hasp-fastener may be reversed. I11 the drawings it will be noticed that the door is held closed by means of the lower point 1.

These hasp-fasteners are exceedingly simple and inexpensive. They may be made of various sizes and form a device which may be used in many places, especially upon the farm and ranch.

Now, having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is

In a combination with a door provided with a suitable perforation, of a hasp perforated in the center and at one end and having a slot at the opposite end; a staple passing through the opening of said hasp and into said door to movably secure said hasp, a bolt forming a shaft passing through the perforasaid lap-ears being lapped over said nut to tion of said door and through said perforasecure the same in the manner set forth. tion in said hasp, a thumb-nut secured to said In testimony whereof I aflix my signature bolt upon the end projecting through said in presence of two Witnesses.

door, a locking-hook having a thumb-piece FRANK VSETECKA. and having one end perforated and provided Witnesses:

With lap-ears, said locking-hook Working WENZEL CESAR,

upon said bolt, and a nut secured to said bolt, JOHN SKoDA. 

